One Day After

Ink on Newspaper

In this work I freeze a moment in time, the morning after the Palestinian Nakba, 16 May 1948, where headlines, sub-lines, or no lines at all were created about Palestine, all over the world, either as the body or in the margin of the world’s journals. What reflects now in the world’s memory? Printed on newspaper this series abstracts the historic moment through black shapes collected and formed by the outlines of news pieces published in Western journals on that day in different countries.

This work goes back to the moment after the catastrophe and looks into the weight and space or lack of it given by the Western world’s coverage of a specific event. The work reflects a reversed relationship between the content of the media creating a potential type of awareness towards the Palestinian situation on that day and how it is employed as a counter to orientalist visions of the region.